Giorgos Gouzoulis
@ggouzoulis.bsky.social
Assoc Prof @qmul.bsky.social | Author, 𝘿𝙚𝙗𝙩 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙁𝙪𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙒𝙤𝙧𝙠𝙚𝙧𝙨 (@brisunipress.bsky.social, 2026) | Co-Editor in Chief, Work in the Global Economy
Researching how financialization reshapes the world of work and worker power
Researching how financialization reshapes the world of work and worker power
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Giorgos Gouzoulis
@ggouzoulis.bsky.social
· Sep 22
📕My new book 'Debt and the Future of Workers' (@brisunipress.bsky.social) is now up for pre-order!
If you are interested to learn why organizing around #debt is as crucial as organizing at #work, see more details below:
📰 25% off via BUP newsletter
#Debt #Work #Financialization #Booksky
If you are interested to learn why organizing around #debt is as crucial as organizing at #work, see more details below:
📰 25% off via BUP newsletter
#Debt #Work #Financialization #Booksky
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"academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it... The dominant four collectively generated... $12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024."
November 18, 2025 at 6:48 AM
"academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it... The dominant four collectively generated... $12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024."
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Seems like evidence for the neo-liberal university label - when the market triumphs over principle (academic freedom) - except that we are opposed. The reactions will be revealing
China intimidated UK university to ditch human rights research, documents show www.bbc.com/news/article...
China intimidated UK university to ditch human rights research, documents show www.bbc.com/news/article...
China intimidated UK university to ditch human rights research, documents show
Sheffield Hallam University apologises to Professor Laura Murphy for restricting her academic freedom.
www.bbc.com
November 3, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Seems like evidence for the neo-liberal university label - when the market triumphs over principle (academic freedom) - except that we are opposed. The reactions will be revealing
China intimidated UK university to ditch human rights research, documents show www.bbc.com/news/article...
China intimidated UK university to ditch human rights research, documents show www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Happy to share the first empirical chapter of my PhD thesis accepted for publication - now in the proofs stage at the International Labour Review, the International Labour Organization’s flagship journal!
November 3, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Happy to share the first empirical chapter of my PhD thesis accepted for publication - now in the proofs stage at the International Labour Review, the International Labour Organization’s flagship journal!
Reposted by Giorgos Gouzoulis
SNAP isn't about "people who don't work." It's about people who don't get paid enough to live.
Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps:
* Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled
* Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages
Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps:
* Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled
* Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages
October 27, 2025 at 12:48 AM
SNAP isn't about "people who don't work." It's about people who don't get paid enough to live.
Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps:
* Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled
* Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages
Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps:
* Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled
* Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages
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Will be at @redemmas.org with Ho-fung Hung this Wednesday. In Baltimore? Come on down!
October 13, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Will be at @redemmas.org with Ho-fung Hung this Wednesday. In Baltimore? Come on down!
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🚨NEW PAPER🚨
We all know the 2022 energy price shock fueled the cost of living crisis. It also caused a profit bonanza for the very rich. We show the US reaped the largest profits ($377bn) of any country. 50% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
We all know the 2022 energy price shock fueled the cost of living crisis. It also caused a profit bonanza for the very rich. We show the US reaped the largest profits ($377bn) of any country. 50% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
October 8, 2025 at 4:50 PM
🚨NEW PAPER🚨
We all know the 2022 energy price shock fueled the cost of living crisis. It also caused a profit bonanza for the very rich. We show the US reaped the largest profits ($377bn) of any country. 50% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
We all know the 2022 energy price shock fueled the cost of living crisis. It also caused a profit bonanza for the very rich. We show the US reaped the largest profits ($377bn) of any country. 50% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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What would it really take to build a green, democratic future?
@sarahljaffe.bsky.social interviews the authors of “Radical Abundance: How to Win a Green Democratic Future,” who lay out a roadmap for transitioning out of capitalism through public-common partnerships and collective power.
@sarahljaffe.bsky.social interviews the authors of “Radical Abundance: How to Win a Green Democratic Future,” who lay out a roadmap for transitioning out of capitalism through public-common partnerships and collective power.
Transitioning Out of Capitalism Towards a Green Future
A conversation with the authors of "Radical Abundance: How to Win a Green Democratic Future" about what it will take to build a livable world for all.
inthesetimes.com
October 8, 2025 at 4:29 PM
What would it really take to build a green, democratic future?
@sarahljaffe.bsky.social interviews the authors of “Radical Abundance: How to Win a Green Democratic Future,” who lay out a roadmap for transitioning out of capitalism through public-common partnerships and collective power.
@sarahljaffe.bsky.social interviews the authors of “Radical Abundance: How to Win a Green Democratic Future,” who lay out a roadmap for transitioning out of capitalism through public-common partnerships and collective power.
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Out now in Competition & Change
@compchange.bsky.social
“Dependent development in digital
capitalism: The politics of startup
policies in the new periphery”
@journals.sagepub.com
#polisky
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
1/n
@compchange.bsky.social
“Dependent development in digital
capitalism: The politics of startup
policies in the new periphery”
@journals.sagepub.com
#polisky
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
1/n
October 6, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Out now in Competition & Change
@compchange.bsky.social
“Dependent development in digital
capitalism: The politics of startup
policies in the new periphery”
@journals.sagepub.com
#polisky
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
1/n
@compchange.bsky.social
“Dependent development in digital
capitalism: The politics of startup
policies in the new periphery”
@journals.sagepub.com
#polisky
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
1/n
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If you're wondering whether academics have written on 'asylum hotels', I can point you in the direction of Martina Tazzioli's work on refugee carcerality & value extraction in the UK, Greece & Italy. See esp. section on financialised asylum accommodation in the UK.
dx.doi.org/10.1177/0263...
dx.doi.org/10.1177/0263...
October 7, 2025 at 9:07 AM
If you're wondering whether academics have written on 'asylum hotels', I can point you in the direction of Martina Tazzioli's work on refugee carcerality & value extraction in the UK, Greece & Italy. See esp. section on financialised asylum accommodation in the UK.
dx.doi.org/10.1177/0263...
dx.doi.org/10.1177/0263...
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📕My new book 'Debt and the Future of Workers' (@brisunipress.bsky.social) is now up for pre-order!
If you are interested to learn why organizing around #debt is as crucial as organizing at #work, see more details below:
📰 25% off via BUP newsletter
#Debt #Work #Financialization #Booksky
If you are interested to learn why organizing around #debt is as crucial as organizing at #work, see more details below:
📰 25% off via BUP newsletter
#Debt #Work #Financialization #Booksky
September 22, 2025 at 1:37 PM
📕My new book 'Debt and the Future of Workers' (@brisunipress.bsky.social) is now up for pre-order!
If you are interested to learn why organizing around #debt is as crucial as organizing at #work, see more details below:
📰 25% off via BUP newsletter
#Debt #Work #Financialization #Booksky
If you are interested to learn why organizing around #debt is as crucial as organizing at #work, see more details below:
📰 25% off via BUP newsletter
#Debt #Work #Financialization #Booksky
📕My new book 'Debt and the Future of Workers' (@brisunipress.bsky.social) is now up for pre-order!
If you are interested to learn why organizing around #debt is as crucial as organizing at #work, see more details below:
📰 25% off via BUP newsletter
#Debt #Work #Financialization #Booksky
If you are interested to learn why organizing around #debt is as crucial as organizing at #work, see more details below:
📰 25% off via BUP newsletter
#Debt #Work #Financialization #Booksky
September 22, 2025 at 1:37 PM
📕My new book 'Debt and the Future of Workers' (@brisunipress.bsky.social) is now up for pre-order!
If you are interested to learn why organizing around #debt is as crucial as organizing at #work, see more details below:
📰 25% off via BUP newsletter
#Debt #Work #Financialization #Booksky
If you are interested to learn why organizing around #debt is as crucial as organizing at #work, see more details below:
📰 25% off via BUP newsletter
#Debt #Work #Financialization #Booksky
Reposted by Giorgos Gouzoulis
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salvo.ghost.io
August 25, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Spoke with Matt Myers for Jacobin about his new book The Halted March of the European Left, asking why the left’s surge stalled and what lessons it offers for today jacobin.com/2025/08/euro...
The Defeat of European Socialism Was Far From Inevitable
Contrary to popular belief, the 1970s was a period in which the European left was at its strongest. Unions were powerful, and socialists felt confident that the changing economy could benefit them. So...
jacobin.com
August 21, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Spoke with Matt Myers for Jacobin about his new book The Halted March of the European Left, asking why the left’s surge stalled and what lessons it offers for today jacobin.com/2025/08/euro...
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We need to draw attention to a new, exploding type of household debt that only recently emerged: it's called rent debt—or "back rent debt," and it didn't really exist before COVID at all. It's getting little attention in housing discourse and media coverage.
We'll explain it.
We'll explain it.
August 14, 2025 at 7:25 PM
We need to draw attention to a new, exploding type of household debt that only recently emerged: it's called rent debt—or "back rent debt," and it didn't really exist before COVID at all. It's getting little attention in housing discourse and media coverage.
We'll explain it.
We'll explain it.
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How do federal and state governments drive innovation in the US? My new paper @cjres.bsky.social shows how the 'Polycentric Innovation State' with multi-level, place-based policies is reshaping regional growth in places like Michigan and Maine
academic.oup.com/cjres/advanc...
academic.oup.com/cjres/advanc...
The US’ Polycentric Innovation State
Abstract. This paper analyses US innovation policymaking since the 2008 Global Financial Crisis, as prevailing political economy accounts, such as the Vari
academic.oup.com
August 12, 2025 at 3:20 PM
How do federal and state governments drive innovation in the US? My new paper @cjres.bsky.social shows how the 'Polycentric Innovation State' with multi-level, place-based policies is reshaping regional growth in places like Michigan and Maine
academic.oup.com/cjres/advanc...
academic.oup.com/cjres/advanc...
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Official release date for Debt's Grip: Risk and Consumer Bankruptcy, from University of California Press!! In it, @boblawless.bsky.social, Deborah Thorne, and I draw on 11 years of court records and surveys from bankruptcy filers to describe what it means to live in financial precarity in the US.
August 5, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Official release date for Debt's Grip: Risk and Consumer Bankruptcy, from University of California Press!! In it, @boblawless.bsky.social, Deborah Thorne, and I draw on 11 years of court records and surveys from bankruptcy filers to describe what it means to live in financial precarity in the US.
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🔶Issue 32 of Futures of Work is out now!
This issue explores how continuity and change shape caring relationships, revealing a gap between the ideal of consistent care and the often fragmented realities faced by care providers and recipients.
This issue explores how continuity and change shape caring relationships, revealing a gap between the ideal of consistent care and the often fragmented realities faced by care providers and recipients.
Futures of Work
A space for radical critiques of the changing world of work
buff.ly
August 4, 2025 at 1:10 PM
🔶Issue 32 of Futures of Work is out now!
This issue explores how continuity and change shape caring relationships, revealing a gap between the ideal of consistent care and the often fragmented realities faced by care providers and recipients.
This issue explores how continuity and change shape caring relationships, revealing a gap between the ideal of consistent care and the often fragmented realities faced by care providers and recipients.
Reposted by Giorgos Gouzoulis
Discussed the new Left party led by Corbyn and Sultana. 230,000 people signed up in 24hrs.
Millions want to tax the rich, end the wars, redistribute wealth, and build a country that serves people, not billionaires.
They can smear, they can panic, but they can’t stop a movement whose time has come:
Millions want to tax the rich, end the wars, redistribute wealth, and build a country that serves people, not billionaires.
They can smear, they can panic, but they can’t stop a movement whose time has come:
July 25, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Discussed the new Left party led by Corbyn and Sultana. 230,000 people signed up in 24hrs.
Millions want to tax the rich, end the wars, redistribute wealth, and build a country that serves people, not billionaires.
They can smear, they can panic, but they can’t stop a movement whose time has come:
Millions want to tax the rich, end the wars, redistribute wealth, and build a country that serves people, not billionaires.
They can smear, they can panic, but they can’t stop a movement whose time has come:
Reposted by Giorgos Gouzoulis
I adore the politicians out there that trying to fight the right. But I can’t imagine ever actually winning without the formation of new multi-racial deliberative and participatory working-class institutions in and outside of the state. Processes are as important as policies.
July 24, 2025 at 7:03 PM
I adore the politicians out there that trying to fight the right. But I can’t imagine ever actually winning without the formation of new multi-racial deliberative and participatory working-class institutions in and outside of the state. Processes are as important as policies.
Reposted by Giorgos Gouzoulis
Our Transnational Socioeconomic Protest Database is now available open access:
Erne R and Nowak J (2024). Transnational Socioeconomic Protest Database. ERC Project ‘European Unions’, UCD, Dublin. Version March 2024. hdl.handle.net/10197/26247
Erne R and Nowak J (2024). Transnational Socioeconomic Protest Database. ERC Project ‘European Unions’, UCD, Dublin. Version March 2024. hdl.handle.net/10197/26247
July 23, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Our Transnational Socioeconomic Protest Database is now available open access:
Erne R and Nowak J (2024). Transnational Socioeconomic Protest Database. ERC Project ‘European Unions’, UCD, Dublin. Version March 2024. hdl.handle.net/10197/26247
Erne R and Nowak J (2024). Transnational Socioeconomic Protest Database. ERC Project ‘European Unions’, UCD, Dublin. Version March 2024. hdl.handle.net/10197/26247
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A new water "super regulator" should have to secure profit for shareholders and banks, just like Ofwat, says the government appointed Cunliffe Review.
This isn't the change British people want: (1) clean water, (2) fair bills, (3) water in the public interest, not for private greed.
Me on SkyNews👇
This isn't the change British people want: (1) clean water, (2) fair bills, (3) water in the public interest, not for private greed.
Me on SkyNews👇
July 23, 2025 at 12:33 PM
A new water "super regulator" should have to secure profit for shareholders and banks, just like Ofwat, says the government appointed Cunliffe Review.
This isn't the change British people want: (1) clean water, (2) fair bills, (3) water in the public interest, not for private greed.
Me on SkyNews👇
This isn't the change British people want: (1) clean water, (2) fair bills, (3) water in the public interest, not for private greed.
Me on SkyNews👇
📕 My new book 𝘋𝘦𝘣𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘍𝘶𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘦𝘳𝘴 has a cover!
If you're wondering how financialization has been reshaping the world of work and how we can defend democracy in workplaces and beyond, watch this space.
Pre-orders soon.
🇬🇧 UK Publication: April 2026 | 🇺🇸 US Publication: May 2026
If you're wondering how financialization has been reshaping the world of work and how we can defend democracy in workplaces and beyond, watch this space.
Pre-orders soon.
🇬🇧 UK Publication: April 2026 | 🇺🇸 US Publication: May 2026
July 22, 2025 at 11:44 AM
📕 My new book 𝘋𝘦𝘣𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘍𝘶𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘦𝘳𝘴 has a cover!
If you're wondering how financialization has been reshaping the world of work and how we can defend democracy in workplaces and beyond, watch this space.
Pre-orders soon.
🇬🇧 UK Publication: April 2026 | 🇺🇸 US Publication: May 2026
If you're wondering how financialization has been reshaping the world of work and how we can defend democracy in workplaces and beyond, watch this space.
Pre-orders soon.
🇬🇧 UK Publication: April 2026 | 🇺🇸 US Publication: May 2026
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Our Local Projections Difference-in-Differences (LP-DiD) paper is out in the Journal of Applied Econometrics.
LP-DiD is a convenient, flexible and computationally fast framework for estimating DiD using simple well-specified regressions....
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LP-DiD is a convenient, flexible and computationally fast framework for estimating DiD using simple well-specified regressions....
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July 20, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Our Local Projections Difference-in-Differences (LP-DiD) paper is out in the Journal of Applied Econometrics.
LP-DiD is a convenient, flexible and computationally fast framework for estimating DiD using simple well-specified regressions....
[1/4]
LP-DiD is a convenient, flexible and computationally fast framework for estimating DiD using simple well-specified regressions....
[1/4]
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Can we have a chat about what causes the disruption in Canada & Australia, not ruled by Trump?
That volatility of hypermarketised & underfunded HE is also happening here, and the government may want to think about the need to stabilise in order to remain attractive. www.ft.com/content/c074...
That volatility of hypermarketised & underfunded HE is also happening here, and the government may want to think about the need to stabilise in order to remain attractive. www.ft.com/content/c074...
July 20, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Can we have a chat about what causes the disruption in Canada & Australia, not ruled by Trump?
That volatility of hypermarketised & underfunded HE is also happening here, and the government may want to think about the need to stabilise in order to remain attractive. www.ft.com/content/c074...
That volatility of hypermarketised & underfunded HE is also happening here, and the government may want to think about the need to stabilise in order to remain attractive. www.ft.com/content/c074...
Reposted by Giorgos Gouzoulis
Clickable links on The List: qmucu.org/qmul-transfo...
@yusufimaadkhan.com has been creating some insightful graphs with that HESA data on loans: observablehq.com/d/9b353c476c....
That's A WHOLE LOT OF NONSECURED LOANS. 👀 @uniofnottingham.bsky.social 5 times in a row over £150 million
@yusufimaadkhan.com has been creating some insightful graphs with that HESA data on loans: observablehq.com/d/9b353c476c....
That's A WHOLE LOT OF NONSECURED LOANS. 👀 @uniofnottingham.bsky.social 5 times in a row over £150 million
July 18, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Clickable links on The List: qmucu.org/qmul-transfo...
@yusufimaadkhan.com has been creating some insightful graphs with that HESA data on loans: observablehq.com/d/9b353c476c....
That's A WHOLE LOT OF NONSECURED LOANS. 👀 @uniofnottingham.bsky.social 5 times in a row over £150 million
@yusufimaadkhan.com has been creating some insightful graphs with that HESA data on loans: observablehq.com/d/9b353c476c....
That's A WHOLE LOT OF NONSECURED LOANS. 👀 @uniofnottingham.bsky.social 5 times in a row over £150 million